Haha, I love Google telling Cortana what to do. That certainly sounds powerful. I also didn’t know that there’s already tasker integration there. It’s getting more and more convincing. I got addicted to the Xbox’s voice commands and lately, I’ve been wishing I had them when the xbox isn’t on.

Now THAT sounds really cool! Dammit, the urge to buy one has increased... Are you using a Logitech hub to control the tv?

This goes along with a lot of my thinking as well, especially concerning Amazon’s activities. My main pause is with third party support - with Echo, I could write a recipe and use it. However, with google, it seems to be a lot more restricted:

How are you finding Google Home? I’ve been reading up on it lately, and it seems to be a bit limited, particularly for third-party application support - even their eventual plans sound like they’ll be less than ideal.

Meanwhile, some asshole just stole a game from Target, and some other misfortunate bystandar is getting jerked around.

Yep, tropes are that for a reason - there are basic bones to a good story, especially ones that hew close to reality (i.e. this applies less to sci-fi/fantasy, but even those genres tend to have common themes). “Unlikely hero saves the world” might be a story element that’s as old as humanity itself, but that doesn’t…

I wouldn’t know generally, but when I was in college I was fairly sure that the women’s team could annihilate the men’s team. *shrug*

I’ve been out of the jRPG game for years and I’ve been wanting to jump back in. FF XV notwithstanding (I got a copy coming in today thanks to that crazy $35 sale Amazon did the other day), is there any one jRPG you guys recommend over others? Xbox One or PS4 only, I don’t have a Vita or a 3DS. I feel like a huge…

My wife has only one, and she generally prefers not to carry it at all if she can get away with it (i.e., she has pockets). But I know that’s a bit unusual.

We thought that was the case when we bought it but there’s no actual pocket there. If we did that, it would just have a hole...

Yes, I’m usually the one carrying around my wife’s stuff in my pockets.

After reading this, I have come to the conclusion that you would legitimately be surprised at how many companies still rely on tape backups for data archival, and yes even have robotic arms to grab them and hook them up for reading. Granted, AFAIK, the computers on these can automatically go and grab the tape you want…

No joke. Humble truth time, I honestly had no idea it was a thing until a female friend pointed it out to me just after college. Now I see it everywhere, and it’s the one thing my wife complains about more than anything in women’s clothing. My current pants - just my pants - have 9 pockets one of which is large enough…

So true, white people do a lot of weird things...

That sounds pretty awesome, I’d love to get a card like that. I think everyone needs a good laugh especially at this time of year.

It’s 85 degrees F here, I don’t think performance cars are getting any discounts here. :)

“Women don’t need pockets! Pockets are for people with jobs that leave the home! What do you need pockets for, when you’re home baking and cleaning house all day??”

Your wife plays civ with you? That’s awesome, I’m jealous.

That’s the other thing. Playing the first mission/tutorial it tells me to use a melee attack to incapacitate a guy and I’m thinking “Cool, non-lethal melee takedowns so I have more than the stun gun to take guys down”. Nope. He straight up strangles the guy with a neon green bungee cord thing. Totally killed the fun…

I totally agree that this game would be a lot better without guns - when the first one came out, I was totally hoping for just that. A game where you solve your problems with creative hacking. However, I will point out that Watch Dogs 2 has one big advantage over the first one in that at least so far, there have been…